AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH
petition calling for the immediate closure of wet markets across the globe. Wet markets get their name in part from blood and remnants from animals brutally killed for customers who desire to eat freshly killed meat. 
wet markets in China, Vietnam and India, animals such as deer, raccoons, crocodiles, and dogs are shown living in filthy conditions, suffering from dehydration, starvation and disease this animal cruelty has to stop.  

These markets are also a threat to public health and have been the source of documented disease outbreaks in the past, including SARS. Researchers also believe COVID-19 most likely originated from a wet market in Wuhan, China, notorious for trading in wild animals.

It is because of the public health crises wet markets cause, as well as the intense suffering inflicted on farmed animals, that Animal Equality is urging the United Nations to ban all wet markets. Not only do these markets pose an immediate danger to humans, but they are also intensely cruel and abhorrently inhumane to animals.